Escape semicolon route playframework 2.0.2

Question

I would like to do a redirect function with playframework. So far I have this in my routes

GET     /redirect            com.test.redirect(redirecturl: String?="")

and my controller :

public static Result redirect(String redirecturl) { 
   return redirect(redirectURL); 
}

This is working well but I have a problem when I pass a url containing a semicolon ";"

If I go to

http:localhost:9000/redirect?redirecturl=http://www.google.com;testaftersemicolon

It redirect me to google.com but in my log the redirecturl is only equals to "http://www.google.com" stopping after a semicolon.

Is there a way to escape it ? Or to do a custom routing inside play?

mchv mchv · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-15T21:32:36

You should be able to escape it by using a custom regular expression in the routes file. This is described in the documentation about routing. Basically something like the following should work:

GET     /redirect/$url<.+>            com.test.redirect(url: String?="")

Escape semicolon route playframework 2.0.2

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